GM. This is Milk Road. Big shoutout to everyone who pulled up to our meetup yesterday, we had a banging time. 

Here’s what we got for you today:

• ✍️ Why is BNB Chain poppin’ off

• ✍️ New crypto ninja app just dropped

• 🥛 Milk Road PRO Portfolio updates

• 🎙️ The Milk Road Show: Solana Is Becoming the Backbone of Tokenized Finance w/ Hadley Stern

• 🍪 Taxis in the UAE are now accepting crypto

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WHY IS BNB CHAIN POPPIN’ OFF 📈

Chevy is off at Permissionless (probably convincing some poor guy to go all in on $SOL).  

So while he’s distracted, we’re taking this chance to talk about a chain he rarely touches: BNB Chain.

And right now? It’s got one of the wildest charts in crypto 👇

BNB Chain has seen an absolute explosion in trading volume over the past month, leaving all other chains behind. 

Since the start of the year, its market share has skyrocketed from ~10% to nearly 70%.

That’s insane growth. 

But here’s the catch: it’s only trading volume that’s up. Other metrics (like total value locked and app revenue) are mostly flat.

Even $BNB’s token price has been pretty flat, down 3.2% in the last 30 days. 

The initial spike in trading volume did give $BNB’s price a little boost, but it’s been sliding back down since.

This can mean one of two things:

1. $BNB’s token price doesn’t follow fundamentals

2. There was something else going on underneath

Turns out it was the latter. 👇

PancakeSwap, the biggest DEX on BNB Chain (and a regular on our top revenue generators), is seeing a massive spike in trading volume thanks to a month-long incentive program.

To be clear, we have no problems with incentives. They’re a legit way to attract users and spark activity.

But the real test? What happens when the rewards dry up.

We’ll be checking back in July to see if PancakeSwap (and BNB Chain) kept the momentum going or…

if it was just a temporary sugar rush.

NEW CRYPTO NINJA APP JUST DROPPED 🥷

If you’ve read this newsletter for long enough, you’ll know we’re huge fans of what you might call ‘crypto ninja apps’.

They’re the kind of applications that onboard people into the world of crypto & Web3, without them even realizing it.

For example: Helium Mobile. They’ve struck multiple deals that now see millions of customers from seven US mobile carriers using Helium’s decentralized mobile data network. 

(Without them knowing it.) 👇

And we think we may have just found a new crypto ninja app…

One platform integration from Fiserv = thousands of regional banks adopting crypto.

To be fair, the details are scarce on exactly how stablecoins will be leveraged across Fiserv’s umbrella of banks…

But we wouldn’t be surprised to eventually see them being used in the background to make both local and international remittances near instant and close to free. 

(All without the customer knowing they have crypto to thank for the new efficiencies.)

Hell yeah.

MILK ROAD PRO PORTFOLIO UPDATES 📊

ICYMI: This is the last PRO Portfolio Update before we switch to a new tiered system.

Starting July 1st, our portfolio updates, Discord alpha, and live AMAs will only be available through Milk Road PRO All Access — a new membership that includes:

• 🥛 Crypto PRO

• 🧨 Degen PRO (launching July 14)

• 📈 Macro PRO (launching August)

• 🤖 AI PRO (coming later this year)

• ✅ PLUS full access to our Portfolio, Signals Channel, Discord, and Live Calls

Portfolio performance 📉

The Milk Road PRO Portfolio saw a slight decrease over the past 7 days. Our portfolio value is at $157K, down 0.14% since last week.

Markets were pretty shaky again, mostly because of the Iran-Israel conflict. Things got tense for a bit, and that definitely rattled investors.

But on June 23, President Trump announced that Iran and Israel had agreed to a ceasefire, starting that same evening. Unsurprisingly, markets jumped on the news — a strong move to the upside across the board.

Hopefully the worst is behind us now, and there won’t be any more fires in that area. If that’s true, the markets might finally take off. 🥳

Portfolio changes 👀

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